I lost my wallet. It is brown cord du ruoy with keys and a silver USB key chain drive attached. If anyone finds it please email me. Its either at UB or Canisius somewhere!

I threw together this new pic of me, Its supposed to be San Marcos Square in the background, refering to my venetian heritage.

I finally put up a little color enhanced online photo almbum of my great grandmother



I scanned the image at my Nonnas house a couple months back using the powerbook before it died. I bet my Nonna Linda could hav enever even considered being on the internet. Its kinda weird to think about where I might be at someday.

Missing Image ;(

I have whipped up a presentation about
one of the forefathers of Virtual Reality for my Interactive Environments class. I thought maybe someone els eout there would enjoy it. Here is a direct link to the 3D



. It would actually be all black but i had to add a bit of specular to make it so that you could see the contours of the model.

First of all it is Terry's 24th birthday which makes me feel really old. Happy birthday T. I didn't get him anything because he refuses to let me spend our money since the financial crisis otherwise known as 2003. We are having a party though at the old 567 so stop by tonight my friends if you read this which you won't. i don't even know why I pretend that anyone even believes in elmwoodstrip anymore.

So on the computer front, I decided I am going to start updating this site at some point soon. I am just super busy with grad school reserach at this point. I finally got aproval for the second life class I always wanted to teach bringing VR together with education on a web level. My students are pretty cool this semester. The best part is they all have home computers for the first time. That definately says either somehting about the current omnipresence of technology or I have a group of serious computer dorks. Could be either way but definately seems like a promising group.

Right now I am locked up in a lab at UB reading aboout the development of Virtual reality for this presentation I have to give next Wednesday. I am kinda freaked out becaus eof the time constraint. I have to give 1 45 Minute presnetaion but I guess thats not a big deal considering I teach a three hour course on Tuesday nights and God knwos I like to talk. Well, I must get back to work... I am going to write more often I hope but first I have to find to update the code to do what I want it to. We will see. I might even go back to the dtabase oulling xml files instead of having all the entires in the database itself.